So You Only Need One Attitude For All Phases?

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So You Only Need One Attitude For All Phases?

It seems that it doesn’t matter what part of the process you are going through, as a writer (and I suspect in everything but since I deal with the real world so rarely I won’t press the point) you only need phase. One setting for the entire process from first word, on the first page, of the first book, to the last word, on the last page, of the last book.

Perseverance.

You have to just knuckle down and get to it. You just have to write if you are going to produce writing. You just set your feet and take the criticism and critique and learn from it. Then you set yourself down and write again – and write it better. You straighten your back and set in to the edits , never giving in – just getting it done.

This is the life of an author. Oh, we go though the range of emotion while creating and editing. We can be silly, serious, and supercilious but to actually do it – we all have the same one thing.

Perseverance.

Submitting your work and get rejected, if you don’t just send it out again, you’ll never get published. Once you’re picked up there are rules, editors, hoops, flaming bags of poop, and crowns of gold. You take it all, chin up, and soldier on. (actually my publishing experience was more along the lines of swing sets, strolls in gardens , the occasional attack by rapid dogs, and watching the fireflies – but then I got lucky)

You work hard on version, after version, by just knowing it has to be done and, in the long run, it will make your work and yourself a better. So you push that boulder up the hill and hope this time is stays on the top, and when it rolls back down the other side, you straighten your back, stretch your muscles, and put your shoulder to it again – because only one thing is going to get your work out there.

Perseverance.

So the novel is out there, you’ve struggled, sweat, and swore but it’s there. People are reading your works. So it’s over right?

No! You don’t sleep, you don’t take a load off, you don’t rest on your laurels – you get marketing. And so I did.

And it seems the same thing that got me this far, is what will carry me through. I’ve spent hours looking through blog sites that review books, and at first I thought for sure it was a waste of time – nothing but a way to give myself a head ache. But just recently, the results of my elbow grease are showing.

Slowly at first, and more steadily from then, I have been getting responses. I have been getting emails saying – ‘Yes, I’ll review your novel’. I’m getting enthusiastic replies to my desperate plea’s, and my confidence and hope are carrying me through. I will get my novel out there because I have -

Perseverance.